The author has hit the nail on its head. For democracy to thrive all the major institutions like judiciary, education etc should work flawless. India is deteriorating. How can people make a sound judgement when they can not even read and write? No wonder all the bad guys are elected.Educated intelligent people have no say.
RE:Democracy of illiterates
by Sowmiya narain on Dec 19, 2007 07:06 PM Permalink
"No wonder all the bad guys are elected" . One major reason is, the so called creamy and literate layer of the society hardly participate in choosing who should rule them.Obvisouly, If empty mind is the resident of devil then the empty spaces created by educated people feeds the evil thoughts of all this Mafias/Gundas/Dada's .oops, I'm sorry I mean our honourable 'politicians' . Indi'a average polling rate is less the 50% out of which more then50% votes were bogus.Obivoulsy the righter pointed out our deficit .We produly call ourselves as 'secular'/democracy. Where is the transparency ? Where is the Secular, we still follow 'caste' system for education, whilst cou try like China, trying to bring 'talent' based system. We will remain as develping nation.Probably it's a myth looming around because of IT boom. One more 'recession' age, will show where we stand in the global arena. Just because our GDP is over 7% doesn't qualify us to be a superpower.Calculate PerCapitaIncome .We are par less than others.Look at our corruption, we are par high than others.Still more than 50% less than poverty line. All the "India shining","Incredible India" is nothing but sales pitch and give a mirage like hope.
